Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... songs . Their poetry had neither rhyme nor metre , the place of rhyme being supplied by alliteration , or the regular recurrence of words having the same letter of the alphabet , generally for their inital letter . There was also a kind ...
... songs . Their poetry had neither rhyme nor metre , the place of rhyme being supplied by alliteration , or the regular recurrence of words having the same letter of the alphabet , generally for their inital letter . There was also a kind ...
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... song sung to the rhythmic move- ment of a chorus . In England we have got to apply the name to a song that is ... songs with which they delighted the people of all classes and ranks , in the Baron's hall after the banquet , on the ...
... song sung to the rhythmic move- ment of a chorus . In England we have got to apply the name to a song that is ... songs with which they delighted the people of all classes and ranks , in the Baron's hall after the banquet , on the ...
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... songs of the Elizabethan period well repay study . Take , as a few examples only , Lyly's Cupid and Campaspe , and Nightingale Song ( quoted above ) , Dyer's My Elizabethan mind to me a kingdom is , Marlowe's Come , live Lyrics . with ...
... songs of the Elizabethan period well repay study . Take , as a few examples only , Lyly's Cupid and Campaspe , and Nightingale Song ( quoted above ) , Dyer's My Elizabethan mind to me a kingdom is , Marlowe's Come , live Lyrics . with ...
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